Tuesday, February 28, 2006

My One Wish: That Wendell Berry would take over control of the USA.

"The people will eat what the corporations decide for them to eat. They will be detached and remote from the sources of their life, joined to them only by corporate tolerance. They will have become consumers purely - consumptive machines - which is to say, the slaves of producers. What these model farms very powerfully suggest then, is that the concept of total control may be impossible to confine within the boundaries of the specialist enterprise - that it is impossible to mechanize production without mechanizing consumption, impossible to make machines of soil, plants and animals without making machines also of people." - Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America, pages 74-75